Nearly three dozen Kansans, recently elected to the state legislature for the first time, gathered recently as a group to learn how to maximize their ability to exercise leadership. Leadership and Legacy in the Statehouse – A New Legislator’s Program is an extensive seven-month program offered by the Kansas Leadership Center to address the unique [...]
Your Leadership Edge, Kansas Leadership Center’s signature short-format program is coming to Hays in September. It’s a powerful three-day experience packed with leadership development learning. Your Leadership Edge will push you to the edge of your comfort zone and competence – all while arming you with effective tools and competencies to help you move the [...]
The Kansas Leadership Center’s newest Art and Practice of Civic Leadership Development – Faith program kicked off June 11th with twenty-two highly accomplished Kansans. Highly respected in their education fields and religious organizations, these participants were carefully selected through a competitive application process. This is the Kansas Leadership Center’s fourth Art & Practice program in [...]
Architectural plans have been finalized for the expansion of the Kansas Health Foundation complex, which will be formally named Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center. It will be a new three-story building in what is now the Foundation parking lot on the corner of Douglas and Topeka. The facility will serve as the new statewide [...]
A while back, the KLC did an On the Balcony Teleconference on the topic of Raising the Heat. This was a conversation about how and when you should raise the heat in leadership. We gathered the ideas taken to create a document called “Raising the Heat.” The purpose of this is to act as a [...]
This blog was written by Seth Bate, a Community Consultant and coach for the KLC Before I started consulting with non-profit boards, before I worked for a Chamber of Commerce, before I even attended a community leadership program, I was a Main Street volunteer. Many Kansas communities have downtown development organizations of some kind. About [...]
Your Leadership Edge is a powerful learning experience for people who wish to make their communities better places to live by developing an awareness of their community’s needs, an exploration of their personal leadership capacity and a framework for exercising civic leadership. Tomorrow we begin our second Your Leadership Edge to 77 individuals from the [...]
When Dr. Roz Diane Lasker talks about the importance of unusual voices in civic life, she raises provocative questions that just might change how you think about your work with communities. Lasker, who will be featured on next week’s On the Balcony alumni teleconference call, is a physician known internationally for her work on public [...]
Here’s a list of recent KLC items in the media: Updated: Leadership pro in Kansas to coach the coaches (kansas.com) Future Kansas leaders studying decisions that led to Lawrence’s smoking ban (WellCommons.com) Latin ministry part of new book (dodgecity.com) The Kansas Hunger Dialogue (numana.org) New African-American and Hispanic community leadership program (kansas.com) Civic leadership isn’t about [...]
The University of Kansas and Kansas State University men’s basketball teams suffered heartbreaking losses in this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and when any team endures such a loss, the intervening conversations can test the boundaries of courtesy and cruelty. In K-State’s press conference following its loss to Wisconsin for example, Wildcats Coach Frank Martin [...]
